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| Border Patrol Agent Fired On, Coming to Aid of Deputy |
| 2005-07-13 |
| Federal authorities said an illegal immigrant fired six shots at a U.S. Border Patrol agent early Sunday morning as the agent was coming to the assistance of a Yuma County Sheriff's Office deputy who was under attack by a group of rock-throwing illegal aliens. No one was reportedly injured and federal authorities are investigating the incident, which they say points to evidence of escalating violence along the border. Joe Brigman, spokesman for the Border Patrol's Yuma sector, said a group of illegal aliens were throwing rocks at a female deputy at County 23rd Street and the Colorado River levee. The deputy called the Border Patrol for help. When an agent arrived, he was fired upon "at close range" by an illegal immigrant who was among another group of about six illegal immigrants near Salinity Canal, Brigman said... both groups of illegal aliens fled on foot back into Mexico. Brigman declined to speculate on why the Border Patrol agent did not shoot back and said Mexican authorities were notified of the incident. The Sunday morning shooting marks the second time in eight months area law enforcement officers have been reportedly fired upon near the Mexico border. In mid-December 2004, two sheriff's deputies were shot at by an unidentified gunman on the Mexican side of the border. No one was reportedly injured and the gunman was never caught. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #7 Already paid for the aircraft design RC |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-13 15:55 |
| #6 Kinda reminds me of the news of the insurgents going back into Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-07-13 14:03 |
| #5 "Brigman ... said Mexican authorities were notified of the incident." Not to worry. The Mexican authorities will vigorously pursue this case of Unauthorized discharge. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-07-13 10:32 |
| #4 They aren't just saying "we want to come in", they're saying "we are coming in no matter what". We already have enough fast food workers, landscapers and roofing laborers, why don't we build a wall just like the one in Israel? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-07-13 09:39 |
| #3 What a pity the officers couldn't fall back and call for air support. It's long past time to treat invaders as invaders, I think. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-13 09:32 |
| #2 GREAT comment, GU! I, for one, want to see a Ron Paul/Tom Tancredo ticket in 2008! |
| Posted by: BA 2005-07-13 08:39 |
| #1 Shark attacks, Aruba, etc on Halloway-TV, all day, all night. But have a shot out on the border just after the London bombings during a war with an enemy intent on gaining access to this country to kill as many citizens as possible, and you'd think it would be NEWS. Now explain to me again why there should be constitutional protection for the media? Oh, yeah, their keen and unrelenting hammering of corruption of the democratic process in the voting fraud in Wisconsin and Washington state. NOT. |
| Posted by: Gleans Unalet1788 2005-07-13 07:43 |